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Jake’s Work Placement Week 2

July 17th, 2023 by Jake

This is currently my second week of my placement at The Village Web Company. During this week, I have been working on a few different projects which I have quite enjoyed doing.

This weeks projects

During this week I had a few main projects that I had the opportunity to work on a few projects.

  • Help Desk Prototype
  • Village Web Company CRM Prototype System
  • Client Website

Client Website

During this project I was able to assist with making alterations to a client’s website this allowed me to have the ability to see how a project would work when a client asks for some modifications to an already built website.

Additionally during this project I was able to fix a few bugs which was affecting the website at the time. I did this by remaking an aspect of the website.

CRM Prototype

Within the office, we had a discussion about potentially turning some internal documents about clients to a digital version that would allow easier access to information for staff. After discussing this, we had a chat about potentially creating a solution that could help provide this for the company.

Currently I am working on a prototype which should be used to test if this is a feasible project and something that could benefit the company in the long term.

Additionally within the creation of this project, I have use the company branding to try and create a site that will match with the companies brand even though this would be an internal site that cannot be accessed by outside users.

In the next week, I am hoping to have some of the core functionality working as intended. After that I’m hoping that I will be able to make the website look better.

Help Desk Prototype

Since last week, I have created a few design documents and had a few discussions on the best ways we could develop this solution in a way that would provide the most value to the company.

Jake’s Work Placement Week 1

June 27th, 2023 by Jake

I’m currently on my first week at the Village Web Company, during this week we have explored ways that we can help the company using our current knowledge whilst learning new skills and tools such as WordPress.

This weeks projects

Currently we have had the opportunity to work on a few projects since we are settling into the company for our first week.

  • Village Blog Post
  • Programming Free Web Challenge
  • Learn more about WordPress

During this, I decided to try and make a few additional things to see if I could make a few tools that could be useful for the company.

Bulk Image Optimizer

During a conversation within the office we discussed images in regard to how clients would provide images for websites, this lead the conversation down the path of how large images on the web can slow down a websites performance.

I decided I could make a bulk image optimizer which would allow you to optimize a large amounts of images at once using the command line.

This is an image of the Bulk Image Optimizer running in the command line.

Bootstrap Column System Recreation

During the first week of the placement, we discussed tools and frameworks that can be used within the front-end of a website to assist a developer with creating a website that looks professional.

After a while we was talking about recreating the column system which is used to space content out on a website, currently I’m working on making this.

Help Desk Prototype

During our first week we discussed about creating a help desk prototype which would be used to help organise support tickets, currently this would just be a prototype to see if this idea would be useful for the company.